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A Documentary About WNEW-FM Will BE Released in 2026

Hopefully they starting an online tribute station of WNEW. They did the same before and after the launch of the WBCN Boston documentary a couple of years ago.
 
DToTheJ said:
Hope it's as good as Z-100 From Worst To First! Saw it the other day, the full movie is on YouTube
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I’m sorry just my opinion. Z-100 From Worst To First wasn’t that good. I guess I had heard Scott Shannon tell the story long before this documentary came out.Especially when he was on CBSFM.I give Scott Shannon credit for his accomplishments but to me from Day one their goal was to keep it Secret that they really weren’t broadcasting from NYC. Somehow they were embarrassed about Broadcasting way at the end of Meadowlands Parkway in a building near the Swamps of Secaucus NJ
 
Always interested said:
I’m sorry just my opinion. Z-100 From Worst To First wasn’t that good. I guess I had heard Scott Shannon tell the story long before this documentary came out.Especially when he was on CBSFM.I give Scott Shannon credit for his accomplishments but to me from Day one their goal was to keep it Secret that they really weren’t broadcasting from NYC. Somehow they were embarrassed about Broadcasting way at the end of Meadowlands Parkway in a building near the Swamps of Secaucus NJ
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That's sort of a strange take. Showmanship was front and center and a lot of what made Z100 stand out back in 1983. It sounded new, exciting and different. The whole point was to give the impression that Z100 was big, and that the listener was a part of that. The fact that the station is licensed to Newark or that the studios were in Secaucus wasn't really relevant to the image Shannon wanted to portray. Why would have it made sense to dwell on it?

People come on this board every day and complain that radio is "boring" or "cookie cutter" or whatever. Z100 was the opposite of that when it launched.
 
Mike Sheridan said:
A documetary on WNEW-AM would be even better.
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You could do a week of documentaries on the AM & FM sides or WNEW, all the way from the 1940s through to 1992 (IIRC), when AM died (and became reborn as WBBR Bloomberg Radio), or when FM died from a thousand bad decisions by "consultants" after the "hot talk" format was killed off after the "Sex for Sam" scandal in 2002 (or 2003, somewhere around there) and became just another Hot AC. But for years each side shined bright with unique programmers and talent. (I treasure my memory of the one time I visited there, and the folks I got to meet.)
 


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